Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Controlling the interpretation of the Constitution is vital to the leftist agenda of expanding the federal government's power. That means keeping the… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves.… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The liberal understanding of 'the separation of church and state' means that as the area of politics expands, the area of private… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
When liberals clamor for 'diversity,' they don't necessarily mean they are ready to tolerate actual disagreement. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
In a few more days we will celebrate Xmas, the day we commemorate the birth of you-know-who. ...It seems the modern consensus… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Liberalism's fatal flaw,... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The prevailing notion is that the state should be neutral as to religion, and furthermore, that the best way to be neutral about it… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Controlling the interpretation of the Constitution is vital to the leftist agenda of expanding the federal government's power. That means keeping the federal judiciary… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the service of… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals. Instead of… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
...[T]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
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